9:00 – 10:00 AM

The Role of Energy Efficiency in New Utility Models: New York and Massachusetts

Massachusetts has been working for the past two years on a grid modernization proceeding initiated by the Department of Public Utilities. In 2014, New York launched Reforming the Energy Vision, an ambitious and comprehensive proceeding examining the future role of utilities and ancillary service providers, and the necessary regulatory and rate structure changes needed to support this new framework. As two leading states look to modernize their energy delivery systems – making way for more distributed generation, intermittent renewables and customer communication – what is the role for energy efficiency, and how will these major initiatives impact the energy services?

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM – Break

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Using Data Analytics in Driving Energy Efficiency

Everywhere you turn “Big Data” is driving businesses to a new era of understanding about their customers, prospects and potential. Using data effectively presents new opportunities to increase energy savings and potentially lower delivery costs. Learn how two companies are using proprietary or market-based tools to advance energy savings for their customers. Our speakers will focus on what drove their need for advanced analytics, how they use the tools today, and the success they had with implementation.

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM –Networking Lunch

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

In what is forecasted to be another winter of supply constraints, the heavily natural gas-reliant Northeast states are concerned about coincident heating and electricity demands potentially straining capacity, and driving up costs. In this session, we’ll hear about what program administrators, state energy offices and regulators are doing to help customers stay ahead of the curve — through energy efficiency and behavioral changes.

2:00 PM – 2:15 PM – Break

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

New Opportunities for Emerging Technologies

As equipment markets evolve and codes and standards grow ever more aggressive, DSM program administrators must keep pace. New, more efficient solutions perpetually emerge and efforts to accelerate the widespread commercialization of viable and potentially underutilized efficient methods and technologies are underway. This session will examine the role of technology in energy efficiency moving forward. What are the opportunities in our region, and what new technologies will arise from those opportunities?